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Artificial intelligence(AI) is seemingly everywhere nowadays. It warns swimmers for sharks , tracks students emotions and concentration levels and can even read minds. AI enables the creation of deep fakes, videos of real people seemingly doing things they never did, as well as disposes and amplifies the unjust, racial, chauvinist and other biases inherent in our culture and society. Besides these headline breaking news, AI is also complexly entangled in our daily lives for instance through our use of the internet, social media, or by just hearing the seasons hit songs generated or selected by some sort of artificial intelligence.

It might even seem that AI is seemingly capable of anything and non-stoppable. This notion is further accentuated by industry and media. Therefore it might be beneficial to define the current AI systems and take a broader look at what is happening right now.

One of the big things in digital technology this year has been the advancements in AI and in particular in machine learning (ML). A lot of great and exciting things has been written about them this year. From the almost incredible mind-reading AI to dystopian visions and further. Despite, AI and ML are producing novel ideas and applications, in some way the current hype of AI and ML reminds me of the hype of big data, or digitalisation, just a while back. The idea remains the same, but the buzzword has just changed.

he other day I was sitting in a sauna* looking at a led-candle. It was the only flickering light in the darkening evening. At first, I didn’t give it too much attention: it flickered and provided a relaxing atmosphere.

Then I started looking at the flickering, it was a bit random, not too much unlike the flickering of a real candle. Suddenly, I felt a slight breeze of cold air coming through the window and noticed that the led-candle did not react to it, but kept that same rhythm of random light flickering. At that point, it struck me.

As the year draws to an end so does this year's drawing project. Less than a month left with the words about the future-drawings. I have not decided on next year’s theme yet, but while I’m busy planning that, now is your (change in a lifetime) to buy yourself, or someone else, a beautiful, lovely T-shirt with a word about the future. Show the world that you are ahead of your time by getting one of these shirts.

“Programming is forgetting” teaches Allison Parrish, an NY-based artist, and programmer (Parrish, 2016). What she means is that by translating functions, actions and material into the digital world by programming we make compromises and forget the complexity of the world.

One of the significant questions in digitality for me has been, and is, the experience of it. How do we experience the different digital signals, processes, algorithms, nonhuman actors, that establish, create and modify our digital surroundings? Is digitality really an out of body experience, meaning we can't grasp it with our being? Or could there be embodied digitality? Not virtual, or augmented reality, but can we comprehend the digitality in our everyday lives?

Together with Mikko Dufva, I have started working on a project that handles the disconnect between the sophisticated digital systems and the experience of them. In particular, we focus on the new artificial intelligence systems that are being brought into many fields of society -including education.

When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them. #rumi #drawing #drawingaday #lovequoteaday #love #quoteaday #quote #art #contemporaryart #words Drawing 52.

As if you were on fire from within.
The moon lives in the lining of your skin. #pabloneruda #drawing #drawingaday #lovequoteaday #love #quoteaday #quote #art #contemporaryart #words Drawing 51.

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange. #milankundera #drawing #drawingaday #lovequoteaday #love #quoteaday #quote #art #contemporaryart #words Drawing 50.

I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. #pabloneruda #drawing #drawingaday #lovequoteaday #love #quoteaday #quote #art #contemporaryart #words Drawing 49.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. #friedrichnietzsche #drawing #drawingaday #lovequoteaday #love #quoteaday #quote #art #contemporaryart #words Drawing 48.

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul. #victorhugo #lesmiserables #drawing #drawingaday #lovequoteaday #love #quoteaday #quote #art #contemporaryart #words Drawing 46.

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything. #fscottfitzgerald #drawing #drawingaday #lovequoteaday #love #quoteaday #quote #art #contemporaryart #words Drawing 45.